Bushfires turn day to night near Adaminaby in New South Wales – video

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Guardian Australia's photographer-at-large, Mike Bowers, sends back footage from Yaouk Road, north of the New South Wales town of Adaminaby, as a fire front approaches on Saturday afternoon. He's with reporter Michael McGowan, who says: 'For the past hour here near Adaminaby it’s felt like midnight. We just stood and watched as two separate fires came over the ridge at almost exactly the same time. It’s blazing at the top of the hill now, long columns of fire spreading out in front of us. A team of about five tankers followed not long after the fire appeared over the mountain, retreating down the slope towards a property that they’re trying to protect at the bottom of this steep hill. There were other properties further into the national park that the fire crews we spoke to earlier were worried about. We don’t know what’s happened to them. There’s debris and ash falling around us everywhere, and the wind is still howling'